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• When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.

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  Mean, Names, People

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• What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

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  Two, Treasure, Small Words

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• The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.

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  Expression, Giving, Joy

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• The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

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  Opposites, Pro Life, Abortion

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With The Authorities And The Diplomatic Corps in Hofburg, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 7, 2007.

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• Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

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  Fashion, Jesus, Voice

  Pope Benedict XVI, Irene Grassl (1992). “Co-workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.359, Ignatius Press

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

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  Giving, Joy, Gestures

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• Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

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  God Is Love, Conversation, Truth Of God

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• Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

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  Church, Doe, Eucharist

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• Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

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  Life, Love Is, Self

  Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

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  Voice, Luxury, Long

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

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  Rosary, Shapes, Mystery

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• I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

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  Catholic, Use, Mustard Seed

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• Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.

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  Jesus, Fullness Of Life, Names

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• Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

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  Soul, Looks, Faces

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• Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

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  Greatness, Want, Facts

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

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  Hands, Path, Lord

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• Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

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  Thinking, People, Evil

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• We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.

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  Fall, Hands, Ends

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

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  Christian, Humble, Thoughtful

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• Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.

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  Christian, Expression, Dancing

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.126, Ignatius Press

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• Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

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  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

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  People, Persons

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• When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

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  Political, Politics, Politician

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• Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.

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  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

  Pope Benedict XVI's Message for The Celebration of The World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

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  People, Doctrine, Helping

  "Conservatives Catholics Disappointed At Pope Benedict’s Papacy" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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